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nostr:npub15nckwda495ft8e8n0l48lq8jwk5d0l4d64jf4unzpk8esgdvgc8swu8xmk nostr:npub14cqpgj6a3u4cy0lz2e3dk96j0whv9xfc6m356a7a0jap8sgnmulsk6k7mw nostr:npub1483h40pvj99aglh96zmn888qx9pj03ra64ce6dc3j362w8z4qmhq7llv2w I'm effectively housebound, but even though walking a 30min round trip to my doctors could knock me out for two weeks, they won't do phone consultations anymore and when I go they don't mask.
I don't understand how doctors can be so cruel to their patients.
Estimated royalties from KDP have gone down three days in a row - only by pennies, but it is frustrating.
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nostr:npub1h5uk69l27fpmy2vved92thz2fsy2q8vdylghmx9e2drlgph2dvrqa88mxk Wow.
I love traces of humanity from thousands of years ago that remind me: they're just like us, they're just like us.
>them is a pro-android cop and an android police consultant, both of whom he wants to enact revenge upon.
>but all of that is from before he meets either Evan or Carter. Towards the end of the android protest movement, Evan had escaped from his role as a police android and joined the movement. Similarly, in the months after android liberation, Carter had come to accept androids as people and regret his former antagonism as misdirected towards androids when it should have been directed towards higher-ups in the police force, government, and android manufacturers. So all the antag sees when he meets>
#WritingWonders 31/8. Has MC or antagonist ever approved of something the other's done?
No. What the antagonist does in the story is pretty sick. And the antagonist doesn't know the protag's personally, so it would be hard for him to approve of their past actions.
The antag *would* have approved of Evan when he was an obedient enforcer of laws that (in his view) kept androids (including Evan himself) in their place. He also would have approved of Carter's pre-story antagonism towards androids
Finally, a layperson-friendly explanation of the techy drama I have been sensing as a disturbance in the force: https://opencollective.com/tusky/updates/tusky-contributor-response-to-nik-clayton
nostr:npub1xmslsa7pee84p7tghqv0tanwntaylku9ml0p3pujagnnp8n4wpls8rj49r I mean, I've taken the odd call in the garden, but I don't do it every single day and I would never do it on speaker phone.
They also don't know the meaning of inside voices.
Why does everyone next door go into the garden to have loud phone conversations on speaker phone?
They are currently doing this WHILE the youngest child is also screaming outside, so it's not to avoid disturbing the kids.
nostr:npub1ynktnxeh4hcnw0gnjtphkkj29cc5z9sjcxvp0fyxdqxf6qd554ssekw6yc urrrrgh. The church next to my house goes bong bong bong bong bong bong bong etc EVERY morning at 8am. And then does fancy bongs all Sunday.
I hates it, precious.
I know 'don't live next to a church then' but a) I lived in a flat next to the same church before and it didn't used to be as bad, and b) this town is jam packed with churches, you cannot avoid them.
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >vagus nerve in term. The vagus nerve is what controls whether you're ramping up or winding own. Basically, any time I'm doing yoga nidra I can get my heart rate to drop around 10 points a minute, and if I'm either highly fatigued, or it's bed time already, I drop off about half-way through the practice. This is so useful for when I've pushed through bed time reading (or just been too anxious to sleep).
I was super surprised by how well it worked. Again, I'm doing this for the>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >Chronic fatigue syndrome in general, but one of the big issues is disturbed sleep, and it really helps when I wake up in the middle of the night, too.
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >at detecting actual sleep now, but with my new one I can still see how my HR starts going down around 10.30/11pm, and if I actually start trying to sleep then, it's way easier to nod off.
2. Yoga Nidra. This is a new one for me. It's not exercise, it's meditation, but a super easy kind. Insight Timer has loads of free guided yoga nidra sleep meditations. They basically get you to do a little breathing exercise at the start, then talk you around thinking of the end-point of the>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >vagus nerve in term. The vagus nerve is what controls whether you're ramping up or winding own. Basically, any time I'm doing yoga nidra I can get my heart rate to drop around 10 points a minute, and if I'm either highly fatigued, or it's bed time already, I drop off about half-way through the practice. This is so useful for when I've pushed through bed time reading (or just been too anxious to sleep).
I was super surprised by how well it worked. Again, I'm doing this for the>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >which is how the HR monitor judges whether you're asleep.
Sleep goes in 1.5 hour cycles, so if you miss the point when your body is ready and go to bed after midnight (say) you may be in the phase where your body is ramping back up again instead of winding down, making it harder to go to sleep.
I switched to going to be when my HR monitor thought I was already asleep, and within days I was going to sleep minutes after going to bed. Completely blown away.
HR monitor are better>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >at detecting actual sleep now, but with my new one I can still see how my HR starts going down around 10.30/11pm, and if I actually start trying to sleep then, it's way easier to nod off.
2. Yoga Nidra. This is a new one for me. It's not exercise, it's meditation, but a super easy kind. Insight Timer has loads of free guided yoga nidra sleep meditations. They basically get you to do a little breathing exercise at the start, then talk you around thinking of the end-point of the>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 Best advice from someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and pre-existing insomnia and depression (so I dreaded going to be and being alone with my thoughts):
1. Buy a heart rate monitor. I got one for the CFS to stop going into post-exertional malaise, but soon realised that my heart rate monitor thought I was asleep at 11pm when I was downstairs on the sofa on the internet.
I didn't think I was ready to sleep, but my body was getting ready - heart rate slowing, moving less.>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 >which is how the HR monitor judges whether you're asleep.
Sleep goes in 1.5 hour cycles, so if you miss the point when your body is ready and go to bed after midnight (say) you may be in the phase where your body is ramping back up again instead of winding down, making it harder to go to sleep.
I switched to going to be when my HR monitor thought I was already asleep, and within days I was going to sleep minutes after going to bed. Completely blown away.
HR monitor are better>
nostr:npub13jdgzuwpwpsstpg03js8kp473wxek9ds6uff4vfv64rlv43pm5kss3uun7 Best advice from someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and pre-existing insomnia and depression (so I dreaded going to be and being alone with my thoughts):
1. Buy a heart rate monitor. I got one for the CFS to stop going into post-exertional malaise, but soon realised that my heart rate monitor thought I was asleep at 11pm when I was downstairs on the sofa on the internet.
I didn't think I was ready to sleep, but my body was getting ready - heart rate slowing, moving less.>
nostr:npub163ar0p8u3kzemzfrkcmc96lh7zqj2tluw738vx475q7c9yx95wss3dt5jr Aw, no! Poor Milo!
Redbubble has STILL not approved your ability to buy a bum on a clock (or the many less silly versions of A Tender Embrace - the drawing I did for the cover of Ruinous Attraction).
I am bummed.
Ha. Bummed. Bums.
Very tempted to do a bunch of shittier drawings of bums and put them on everything and see if they're accepted. But that would be effort.
I also love shit posts, hate billionaires and unethical LLMs, and am chronically ill. So you can expect posts along those lines, too π